Local time · Lake Forest
What time is it in Lake Forest, California?
1:50:34AM
- Time zone
- PST
- America/Los_Angeles
- UTC offset
- −8:00
- Standard is −8:00
- Daylight saving
- Not in force
- Starts Sun, Mar 14
- Population
- 87,159
- City proper
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About this clock
Daylight saving in Lake Forest
Lake Forest is currently on standard time. The next change is Sunday, March 14, 2027, when 2:00 am becomes 3:00 am local time.
Lake Forest sits at 33.65°N, 117.68°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Lake Forest.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Pacific Standard Time, but the sun does not. Over Lake Forest it is highest at 11:34 am today — 26 minutes before clock noon.
At 117.7°W, Lake Forest sits 9 minutes of solar time east of Pacific Standard Time’s 120° meridian, so on standard time the sun peaks 9 minutes before noon.
Daylight in Lake Forest today
- Sunrise
- 6:21 am
- Sunset
- 4:48 pm
- Day length
- 10 hours 28 minutes
- Longest day
- 14 hours 23 minutes
Today runs 10 hours 28 minutes in Lake Forest, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 4 hours 28 minutes, from 14 hours 23 minutes at the June solstice down to 9 hours 55 minutes in December.
At 33.7°N that puts Lake Forest between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.